The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission, a citizen board appointed by the governor, voted in January to shorten the season on trophy hunting mountain lions (also known as cougars or pumas) and to disallow electronic calls. Citizens raised many.
Statistics show the game management unit that straddles much of the border between Routt and Moffat counties north of Colorado Highway 40 recorded the highest number of mountain lions harvested by hunters. Last season’s harvest.
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part series from Aspen Journalism on wolf reintroduction. As the final steps fall into place before wolves are officially reintroduced to Colorado, policies governing both lethal.
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Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part series from Aspen Journalism on wolf reintroduction. As the final steps fall into place before wolves are officially reintroduced to Colorado, policies governing both lethal.